Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.138, No.34, 10738-10741, 2016
Spin Frustration in an Organic Radical Ion Salt Based on a Kagome-Coupled Chain Structure
Electro-oxidation of the quinoidal bisdithiazole BT in dichloroethane in the presence of [Bu4N][GaBr4] affords the 1:1 radical ion salt [BT][GaBr4], crystals of which belong tothe trigonal space group P3. The packing pattern of the. radical cations provides a rare example of an organic kagome basket structure, with S = 1/2 radical ion chains located at the triangular corners of a trihexagonal lattice. Magnetic measurements over a wide temperature range from 30 mK to 300 K suggest strongly frustrated AFM interactions on the scale of J/k(b) similar to 30 K, but reveal no anomalies that would be associated with magnetic order. These observations are discussed in terms of the symmetry allowed Magnetic interactions within and between the frustrated layers.